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Lovehate OneNote; the easy paste and type and draw, all WSYWIG, is great. But it feels like a place to lose notes and never find them again. "OneNote for Window
by jodrellblank 3y ago
Lovehate OneNote; the easy paste and type and draw, all WSYWIG, is great. But it feels like a place to lose notes and never find them again. "OneNote for Windows 10" gives a weird hierarchy view of notebooks on the left, which slides into folders and pages; "OneNote" shows the same data as a dropdown list of notebooks at the top, tabs along the top for folders and tabs down the right for pages; why so different?
And it's obsessed with slurping your data up to Microsoft. If you want to stick with an older (unsupported) classic Desktop OneNote, you get a modal dialog box every. single. time. you. open. it. saying "Get more out of OneNote. A newer version of OneNote is now available for free. Go to www.onenote.com to download."
On the plus side, if you do use Microsoft Cloud storage then you can query and work with the OneNote data through the MS Graph REST API: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/integrate-with-onenote#what-can-i-do-with-onenote-apis-in-microsoft-graph https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/integrate-with-oneno...
So you can programatically add and update content in pages in a shared team notebook, for example. And because it "runs" in MS cloud it supports things like asking the cloud services to "screenshot this webpage for me and add it as a note" and "extract content from this website and add it".
- FredPret 3y agoIt's a brilliant product except for everything Microsoft-y about it